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Hey guys @yannleretaille and @nursoda: I wanted to apply this same patch given the positive reactions towards it, but it turns out it's incomplete! Take a closer look at the last line, it seems to be chopped after an "if [ ... ] then" statement. That's likely the reason checksum didn't match, and I guess it was chopped without @bkb noticing due to some sort of comment size/line-count limit.

If @bkb or somebody else can get the last part of the patch posted here, that'd be great; on the other hand, it seems to not be terribly important since it still worked for you guys.

I can also confirm that the package installs fine on a newly installed arch with the patch installed. However, I had to adjust the second checksum, not sure why.

I can confirm wild34s patch fixes the issue. It would probably make sense to update the package accordingly (for now).

Alors ouiiii euhh, ça marche paaass euuhh

Ou devrais-je dire

Same as @unixtastic, it seems to be a problem related to C libraries and Qt

For reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/fj9seb/masterpdfeditor5_cannot_be_launched_anymore/

@farseerfc consider the following git patch to fix the annoying issue with Qt libs.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index cdfb30e..e0a6916 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,8 +11,13 @@ url='https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/'
 arch=('x86_64')
 license=('custom')
 makedepends=('patchelf')
-source_x86_64=("https://code-industry.net/public/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver}-qt5.amd64.tar.gz")
-sha1sums_x86_64=('fd3e19479a298bfe6770b5dddd67b009742e9321')
+source_x86_64=("https://code-industry.net/public/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver}-qt5-all.amd64.tar.gz" "masterpdfeditor.sh.patch")
+sha1sums_x86_64=('bff9d66b531e60603a9221cf6bd2595c6bf602d6'
+                 'bc98283763d229f6d0d0a50350fb02daeba9238c')
+prepare() {
+    cd "$srcdir/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver%%.*}"
+    patch -p1 -i "$srcdir/masterpdfeditor.sh.patch"
+}

 package() {
   depends=('gcc-libs' 'glibc' 'libgl' 'nspr' 'nss' 'qt5-base' 'qt5-svg' 'sane')
@@ -21,7 +26,7 @@ package() {
   cp -a --no-preserve=ownership master-pdf-editor-${pkgver%%.*} "$pkgdir/opt/"

   cd "$pkgdir/opt/master-pdf-editor-${pkgver%%.*}"
-  ln -sr masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*} -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
+  ln -sr masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*}.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*}"
   install -Dm644 masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*}.desktop -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
   install -Dm644 license.txt -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
   patchelf --remove-rpath masterpdfeditor${pkgver%%.*}
diff --git a/masterpdfeditor.sh.patch b/masterpdfeditor.sh.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a31742
--- /dev/null
+++ b/masterpdfeditor.sh.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- a/masterpdfeditor5.sh  2020-03-27 10:57:36.818464325 +0100
++++ b/masterpdfeditor5.sh  2020-03-27 10:58:22.561935668 +0100
+@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+ #!/bin/sh
+  appname=`basename $0 | sed s,\.sh$,,`
+- libpath=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)
+- dirname=`dirname $0`
++ libpath="$(cd $(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")"); pwd)"
++ dirname="$libpath"
+  tmp="${dirname#?}"
+  
+  if [ "${dirname%$tmp}" != "/" ]; then

@unixtastic Did you read what's below your comment ? Everything is explained. 1. remove Aur version 2. download the "all" version from Code Industry 3. Install it 4. run /opt/master-pdf-editor-5/masterpdfeditor5.sh 5. smile :)

This doesn't run.

• masterpdfeditor5: symbol lookup error: masterpdfeditor5: undefined symbol: _ZN10QMutexPool17globalInstanceGetEPKv

ldd doesn't show any missing libraries. The command mentioned below, /opt/master-pdf-editor-5/masterpdfeditor5.sh, doesn't exist.

@Chester A tar.gz file is just a compressed archive similar to a zip file, and it's universal across all linux platforms; i.e. there's nothing magic about installing it on Arch. Also note that this won't currently work unless you downloaded the "-all" version which includes the older Qt libraries. Here are the steps, which you'll need to run as root, and assuming you downloaded the masterpdfeditor5 tarball to /home/chester:

# cd /opt

# tar xvfp /home/chester/master-pdf-editor-5.4.38-qt5-all.amd64.tar.gz

# cd /usr/local/bin

• Now use your favorite text editor to create a shell script called masterpdfeditor5 with these contents: (You can skip this step if you only ever launch programs from the GUI)

#!/bin/sh

app_path="/opt/master-pdf-editor-5"

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$app_path/lib:$app_path/platforms:$app_path/printsupport:$app_path/iconengines:$app_path/imageformats:$app_path/platformthemes:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$app_path/masterpdfeditor5 "$@"

Finally,

# cp /opt/master-pdf-editor-5/masterpdfeditor5.desktop /usr/share/applications

# chmod 644 /usr/share/applications/masterpdfeditor5.desktop

If you uninstalled the AUR package using pacman -Rns you will probably have unmet dependencies. I had to install the sane package; you might run into other unmet dependencies. Warning: generally installing from tarball is something that should be left to those with a fair level of linux expertise -- a typo could screw up your system. Also if you go back to using the AUR package, you'll need to clean up after yourself by hand; i.e. remove everything you've created in the previous steps.

I downloaded the official version from code industry. How does one install a tar.gz in Arch?

This pkg is out of date (07/2019). I report it as ofd yesterday but it seems my comment vanished in the air. Just install the official version from code industry and you'll be happy :-)))